Friday, 21 May 2021

ALL-TIME CLASSIC MOVIE FAVOURITES – EARTHQUAKE (1974)

 

“Earthquake” is an action thriller disaster movie, screenplay by George Fox and Mario Puzo and Directed by Mark Robson.

The story focuses on a varied group of people in Los Angeles, construction Engineer Stuart Graff (Charlton Heston) who is estranged from his jealously possessive wife, Remy (Ava Gardner), and is having an affair with the widow of a co-worker, Denise Marshall (Geneviève Bujold) and Remy pressurises her father, Sam Royce (Lorne Greene), Stuart's boss, to stop Stuart from seeing Denise.

Also Rogue policeman, Lew Slade (George Kennedy), is suspended from the L.A.P.D. for punching another officer and contemplates quitting the force.

Jody (Marjoe Gortner) is a perverted grocery store manager, who lusts after Rosa Amici (Victoria Principal), and Rosa’s sister Sal (Gabriel Dell), is the assistant to Miles Quade (Richard Roundtree), an aspiring daredevil motor cyclist.

All the lives of all these people are devastated when a major earthquake rips through Los Angeles and reduces the city to ruins.

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